Reply #6: Exactly the same is happening all over Europe... [View All]

[Dirk39]

Hello from Germany,

"(...)needs to extend the work week upwards of fifty hours to compete with China. Great future for us all, eh? Work more for less money and fewer, if any, benefits."

"business consultants"
"efficiency experts"
... all over the place.
And we have a "red-green" Blairist government, on cultural issues much different from Bush.

The real problem is: we don't have tools to reach the people. Proletariat, working class: these are terms from the age of industrialisation. Solidarity did happen, when many people did meet on a daily basis, doing the same kind of job, living under the same conditions, fighting the same fight.

But today, more than ever, we are isolated. Our situation might be the same, but we don't realize it, most people don't experience it. It's an abstract thing.

And to those, who might offend you for being a "commie" or left-wing-radical or whatever:

Please make us an offer: do you really believe that a few reforms would improve the "ultra-capitalism", we experience now - everywhere, not only in the USA - into a society with full-employment, social-security, universal health-care, a safe retirement and much higher wages than ever: in a line with the productivity our work has reached?
Is there any moderate or Clintonesque Democrat, who really believes this?

"The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.
The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got."
(Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Chapter II, 1848)
Dirk